Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz / Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

Faculty Member, Direktion Prof. Dr. G. Wolf

Other Affiliations: Università degli Studi di Bologna, Collegio Superiore
Università degli Studi di Bologna, Dipartimento di Paleografia e Medievistica

About

Since beginning my PhD in 2004, I have worked on the history of images and problems of visual culture between Medieval and Early Modern period.
My thesis, defended at the University of Bologna in 2007 and awarded first class honors, focused on the relationship between hagiography and iconography in the figure of Saint Anthony the Abbot. During my PhD studies, I also developed the publication of my M.A dissertation: in my first book, Il tau il fuoco il maiale. I canonici regolari di sant’Antonio Abate tra assistenza e devozione (Spoleto, Centro Italiano di Sudi sull’alto Medioevo, 2006), I studied the history of the canons of Saint Anthony Abbot, starting with the arrival of the hermit’s relics in the Dauphine (France) in 1070, which is a fundamental starting point for understanding the cult of the hermit – and therefore his image – in Western Europe.
Recently, I have summarized my doctoral researches in the a volume published by Laterza (2011), dedicated to the methods through which the cult of Saint Anthony, the hermit of Thebaid, was established in Mediterranean Europe between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries.

I have been awarded a number of short-term fellowships in Great Britain (University of Leicester, 2001) , France (EHESS, 2005) and Germany (l’Institut für Kunstwissenschaft und Ästhetik, Universität der Künste, Berlin, 2007) and I was three-years postdoctoral fellow at the KHI in Florence.

Since 2009, I have taught the History of Modern Art for Boston College’s Exchange Program, in collaboration with the University of Parma (Italy).

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